Do British people say 'biscuits' when they mean cookies and 'jelly' when they mean jam, instead of saying the American words for them (cookies, jelly)? If so, why?
Last Updated: 21.06.2025 13:23
American dialects are simply cute. We here in the UK have no need of the cutsie words you in the USA use, sidewalk for pavement, pavement for road surface, jelly is a thing but Jam is another Jelly is cutsie and doesn’t describe what has happened to the fruit it isn’t suspended in cute Jelly, it is Jammed into sugar syrup. Cookie AAAH HOW QUAINT, AND CUTE A WORD A BABY WOULD USE, what are they? Biscuits are crisp, and the word biscuit is derived from the French Coquere, which simply means to cook. So we have cooked crisp cake like things that Americans from the USA quaintly call cookies. Anotherr cute US word is Hood. The US replacement for bonnet on a car, or fender which in real English is how quaint to use a f...